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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does a passable job of conveying the confusion and heartache of postpubescent romance, becoming more engrossed in his role as the scene progresses. Forsythe, however, seems wholly incapable of playing a teenager. The effect is somewhat ridiculous, as it appears that an adult woman is begging a self-conscious youth to initiate her into womanhood. In addition, the scene is so devoid of real emotion that by its conclusion one has to wonder why Luba has included Paul as one of the important men in her life...
...potential audience member is whether The Hitcher is a "good" B-rate flick or a "bad" B-rate flick. Another slasher film could have taken the urban legend style, Riders on the Storm hitchiker killer motif and made a palatable product for the sanguinary tastes of the nation's youth. But though its premise is good, The Hitcher fails to deliver, and the audience is tediously dragged over the desert highways of this misdesigned film...
Various researchers have blamed youth suicides on such disparate causes as the Viet Nam War, television, the drug culture and stress generated by the sheer number of baby boomers. Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Michael Peck suggests that in today's highly mobile families, the high rate of divorce and generally "less available parenting" have left adolescents with little emotional backup...
GLENDALE, Calif.--Police said yesterday they arrested the 17-year-old son of a Philippine newspaper executive and the youth's girlfriend for investigation of murder, alleging the two killed Oscar Salvatierra and used political turmoil as a cover for the deed...
Coleman was politically active at Harvard, serving as a member of the Youth Caucus, a bipartisan organization that mobilized opposition to the Vietnam war. She was also a campaign volunteer for Paul N. McCloskey, a California Republican congressman who ran against Richard M. Nixon on an anti-war platform...